DISQUS

Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/12/06/blog-council-a-thinly-veiled-department-meeting/

  • ZBeauvais · 2 years ago
    Wow, a council? It sounds like old businesses are trying to lend their own pseudo-authority to the matter. Doesn't this sound a little more ominous than you made it out to be? "...and develop standards-based best practices as a model for other corporate blogs." That sounds a little like asserting control over other bloggers.

    I don't think it will work, but I think it has potential to be even messier than you're imagining.
    -Z
  • Parul · 2 years ago
    Interesting concept!I’m very sure a number of people would wana discuss what we learn, write and struggle with. I’ve always learned from some blend of doing it myself and snooping to others - to me, this is another way to work.

    Parul
    www.bhopu.com
  • coffeecupkat · 2 years ago
    "We had meetings about meetings. We had impromptu meetings about those meetings. I was hired as a coder and software engineer, but I soon found out my actual job function was to perform well in meetings."

    Mark, have you read "And Then We Came to the End" by Joshua Ferris?

    If not, you would seriously appreciate the humor.
  • Mark \ · 2 years ago
    I haven't, but I'll check it out now.
  • Jake McKee · 2 years ago
    So wait... in your mind the people doing it right (and thus don't really need the help of others) are the ones that should make up this group, not the ones that aren't doing it right (and thus need help from others)?

    Uh....
  • Mark \ · 2 years ago
    No...


    ... Those doing it right should be the ones teaching the ones who aren't.

    It shouldn't be a blind-leading-the-blind situation. Nothing ever gets accomplished by that.